Scaffold Proteins in Gastrointestinal Tumors as a Shortcut to Oncoprotein Activation
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Scaffold proteins as dynamic switches.
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عنوان ژورنال: Gastrointestinal Tumors
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2296-3774,2296-3766
DOI: 10.1159/000477904